SARS-CoV-2 (CORONAVIRUS) VACCINE

Ananya Bharatwal
3 min readAug 4, 2020

WHEN? WHERE? AND HOW?

DON’T LET IT BANJAX YOU

IT’S CROSSING THE LIMITS NOW. CURRENTLY HAVING 6,030,741 ACTIVE CASES HAS CREATED HUGE CRISIS AMONG DIFFERENT PARTS OF THE WORLD. MAJORLY FOR THE UNDEVELOPED AND DEVELOPING COUNTRIES. IT WILL BE A BIG TRIUMPH FOR US WHENEVER WE SUCCEED IN MAKING THIS VERY CARDINAL “ CORONAVIRUS VACCINE”.

WELL TALKING ABOUT THE ONE WHICH WILL BE CREATED IN NEAR FUTURE HOPEFULLY HAS MADE OUR ARCHAIC REMEDIES TURN UP PRETTY GOOD. AFTER LOSING ALL OUR HOPES OF GETTING A VACCINE TIMELY WE HAVE NOW GIVEN UP AND ARE FOLLOWING THE PATHS OF OUR ANCESTORS. BUT WILL THIS HELP US?

WHO(WORLD HEALTH ORGANISATION) DOES NOT RECOMMEND SELF- MEDICATION WITH ANY MEDICINES, INCLUDING ANTIBIOTICS, AS A PREVENTION OR A CURE FOR COVID-19

AFTER READING A LOT OF ARTILES I COULD SUM UP THR FOLLOWING-

THERE ARE A LOT OF MYTHS AROUND THE WEB REGARDING THE CURE OF THIS VIRUS OR PERHAPS IT’S PREVENTION. ACCORDING TO https://patient.info/ ADDING LARGE AMOUNTS OF PEPPER TO YOUR FOOD, INGESTING DISINFECTANT, EXCESSIVE ALCOHOL CONSUMPTION AND SUBJECTING YOURSELF TO EXCESSIVELY HIGH OR LOW TEMPERATURES ETC SO-CALLED ‘CURES’ WILL KILL CORONAVIRUS AND MOST ARE LIKELY TO DO YOU SERIOUS HARM.

YOU MAY FIND ANY REMEDY WORKING BUT BEFORE MOVING FORWARD WITH IT ONE SHOULD ALSO BE CONCERNED ABOUT THE HAPPENINGS THAT CAN HAPPEN WITHIN OUR BODY WHILE INDULGING INTO A REMEDY. THIS HOME REMEDY MAY HELP YOU BATTLE IT BUT ALSO THEN WILL DESTROY THE INNER ORGANS OF YOUR BODY, WHICH YOU MIGHT EVEN NOT NOTICE. SO MINDFULLY TAKE A STEP AHEAD IF NOT CONCERNED ABOUT THE SAYINGS OF WORLD HEALTH ORGANISATION (WHO).

AFTER THE DENIAL OF THESE SO-CALLED REMEDIES WE (OR SOME OF US) ARE EAGERLY WAITING FOR THIS COVID-19 VACCINE TO QUICKLY RING OUR HOUSE BELL. BUT WHEN WILL IT COME?

DIFFERENT COUNTRIES GO BY THEIR DIFFERENT METHODS. SOME SAY IT WILL TAKE A HUGE TIME LIKE AROUND MID-2021 BUT WHEN TALKING ABOUT INDIA WE COULD SAY

VACCINE WILL BE READY BY END OF 2020 OR EARLY NEXT YEAR IF EVERYTHING GOES AS PER PLAN SAYS AIIMS DIRECTOR, DELHI, INDIA. BUT THEN THERE ARE A LOT OF IFS AND BUTS IN THAT. THREE PHASES OF VACCINE TRIALS ARE GOING ON BUT STILL A LOT NEEDS TO BE DONE.

ANSWERING THE QUESTION THAT WHERE IS THIS CORONAVIRUS VACCINE WILL BE MADE CAN BE A LITTLE CONTROVERSIAL. NO ONE CAN CHOOSE SOMEONE’S SIDE. AND THAT’S FOR SURE THAT YOU WILL BE ENCOURAGING AND SUPPORTING YOUR COUNTRY TO MAKE IT FIRST AND CROSS THAT INVISIBLE LINE OF SUCCESS. WHETHER IT WILL BE AN ASIAN OR AN NORTH AMERICAN OR AN SOUTH AMERICAN OR MAYBE ANY OTHER COUNTRY IT WILL BE A HUGE WINNING FOR ALL OF US. THAT’S DIFFERENT THAT COUNTRY WILL BE PRAISED AND APPRECIATED BUT IT WILL BENEFIT ALL OF US. NO MATTER WHO HE/SHE IS.

LAST BUT NOT THE LEAST HOW WILL THIS VACCINE BE MADE?

HMMM…. IT’S A BIT HARD TO EXPLAIN EVERYTHING WITHOUT GOING INTO THE MEDICAL TERMS BUT STILL I WILL POSSIBLY TRY TO ADDRESS EVERYTHING A BIT MORE CLEARLY WHICH IS EASY TO UNDERSTAND.

NORMALLY INFLUENZA VACCINES ARE MADE BUT THIS VACCINE IS A BIT SEPARATE. ACCORDING TO https://newseu.cgtn.com/ ON THE OUTSIDE IS A GLYCOPROTEIN SPIKE. THIS CROWN-LIKE STRUCTURE IS WHERE THE VIRUS GETS ITS NAME (CORONA MEANS CROWN IN LATIN). SIMILAR TO HEMAGGLUTININ IN INFLUENZA, THIS SPIKE PROTEIN MEDIATES ENTRY OF CORONAVIRUS INTO HUMAN CELLS. THIS IS THE LOCK TO WHICH THE ANTIBODY KEY WILL BIND.

TEAMS FROM AROUND THE WORLD ARE RACING TO FIND WAYS OF TARGETING THE SPIKE PROTEIN FOR BOTH DRUG DISCOVERY AND NOVEL VACCINES.

I HOPE THAT THIS SMALL VITAL PIECE OF INFORMATION WILL HELP YOU TO UNDERSTAND BETTER ABOUT THIS CORONAVIRUS VACCINE AND IT’S TREATMENT. AND ALSO NOT TO FORGET THE HOME REMEDIES WHICH WE ARE DEFINITELY TRYING AT OUR HOMES NOWADAYS.

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Ananya Bharatwal

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